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The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 12

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 12/05/2013 - 10:42am

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - The Stringer went live February 20
NEWS update: More contributors and writers have joined The Stringer as we continue to extend our reach nationally and internationally. We are also keen to share with you that in the 80 days we have been bringing to you The Stringer we have been reaching an audience in such high numbers that it was beyond our expectations. We are establishing a healthy national reach but also an international social reach.

South Africa, 20 years after Apartheid, doing better than Australia

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 11/05/2013 - 6:31pm

by Gerry Georgatos - May 11th, 2013
Australia incarcerates its Aboriginal youth at the world’s highest rates, it imprisons one in 14 Western Australian Aboriginal adult males and it removes one in 14 children from Western Australian Aboriginal families into the care of the State, and for Aboriginal peoples the whole of the Northern Territory is a prison built brick by brick by the Commonwealth, and this prison is loosely known as the ‘Intervention’.

Since 1992, the rate of Aboriginal incarceration in Australia has grown 14 times faster than that of non-Aboriginal incarceration.

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Fracking the Canning Basin

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 09/05/2013 - 7:35pm

Gerry Georgatos - Western Australia’s Canning Basin (photo abc.net.au) will soon be talked about as the next resources mining frontier. The James Price Point $40 billion gas hub proposal for all intents and purposes has been dumped but the State’s Premier, Colin Barnett, will pitch the extraction of natural gas from the Canning Basin as the way to go in the pursuit of State revenue. Most of the gas will be exported.

The shale gas deposits of the Canning Basin are among the richest in the world.

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WGAR News: Barb Shaw shares her thoughts on income management: CAAMA Radio

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 07/05/2013 - 2:28pm

Newsletter date: 8 May 2013

Contents:

* CAAMA Radio: Barb Shaw shares her thoughts on income management
* Nicola Butler: The Stringer: The case against compulsory income management
* Northern Territory (NT) News
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws

* The Wire: Indigenous midwives; Why we need more
* Tracker: Births more deadly for Aboriginal mothers

* Tracker: Don't forget needs of Indigenous in NDIS: Group

* SBS Radionews Audio: Plan to save SA's Barngarla language

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 4

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 04/05/2013 - 2:29pm

The Stringer went live February 20 - NEWS update: More contributors and writers have joined The Stringer as we continue to extend our reach nationally and internationally. We are also keen to share with you that in the 73 days we have been bringing to you The Stringer we have been reaching an audience in such high numbers that it was beyond our expectations. We are establishing a healthy national reach but also an international social reach.

The Prime Minister believes she will win September 14

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 04/05/2013 - 1:00pm

Every poll nationwide portrays either a decisive or catastrophic defeat for the Australian Labor Party come September. But the Office of the Prime Minister has gone heavy into campaign strategies since late last year according to our source. These include not just make overs for the Prime Minister but the commissioning of their own polls and surveys.

Read the whole story here: http://thestringer.com.au/prime-minister-believes-she-will-win/#.UYR3A7W...

Australia’s Aboriginal children detained at the world’s highest rates

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 02/05/2013 - 4:31pm

By Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/

In the United States, the Annie Casey Foundation’s report ‘No Place for Kids: The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration,’ has an assembly of juvenile crime statistics that evidence why locking up children does not work. The United States has the highest documented incarceration rates of adults and children than any other nation.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 47 events from 2 May 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 01/05/2013 - 5:58pm

Newsletter date: 2 May 2013

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Thu 2 May 2013: Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic
Next Meeting:
Indigenous Social Justice Association - Melbourne:
http://www.isja-msg.com/index.htm
"During 2013, ISJA will meet the
first Thursday of every month."
Event details: http://www.isja-msg.com/coming_events.htm

Event: Fri 3 May 2013: Grovedale, Geelong, Vic
Book Launch: A Decision to Discriminate
Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory
Speakers:
Auntie Betty Pike, Elder from the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry, Victoria

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WGAR News: A poor man's treaty: the 'con' in constitutional reform: Chris Graham At Large

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 28/04/2013 - 10:26am

Newsletter date: 29 April 2013

Contents:

* Chris Graham At Large: A poor man's treaty: the 'con' in constitutional reform

* Nicola Butler, The Stringer: APY lands wasted funds
* Background to Income Management for APY Lands in South Australia

* Paddy Gibson, Solidarity Online: Income Management expansion in effort to break boycott
* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Housing report shows more action is needed on NT overcrowding
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws

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